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Jayson Salazar Rodriguez
Personal blog · jdsalaro.com · on HN as jdsalaroprogrammingsystemswriting
Jayson Salazar Rodriguez writes @jdsalaro, a personal blog at jdsalaro.com about programming, systems and writing. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its comparison of the fonts in Microsoft's new default typeface change. One commenter calls it a good review of the relevant fonts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m Jayson, a Colombian and German systems engi...
Most-linked posts?
- A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-14
What Hacker News says?
I've evaluated Netlify for my blog at https://jdsalaro.com and I'd advise against that unless you're missing a CMS on your static site generator. Other than that I personally felt it didn't bring much to the table. I do admit that their CMS is slick, but it wasn't really a feature I needed. Of course I'm not sure what other people are using them for, but in my case GitLab/GitHub covered all my bases pretty well sinc…
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on “Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time”Submitted Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments as a story · 131 points
HN discussionThe only middle-way sort of solution I found a long time ago, even before joining the company, while looking where to host https://jdsalaro.com was to use GitLab, they being open-source and quite public about their, now our, values. Nowadays I'm planning on writing again and have tried a setup that seems to be alright: - migrate from Pelican to Hugo since the community is more vibrant, responsive and the themes much…
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on “Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time”Submitted Office 365 Renders Most of Calibri Regular with Lato Regular on Linux Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Just because you don't get paid for it doesn't mean it's not an incredibly valuable part of your contribution to the good of your neighbors. Keep up the excellent work, everyone. Precisely, I truly do not understand how these people witness a potentially catastrophic event of such proportions and instead of asking "dear God, I wonder how many backdoors there are in the Windows operating system that we don't know a…
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on “A stealth attack came close to compromising the Internet”Submitted A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI certainly share your nostalgia. I've restarted my blog ( https://jdsalaro.com ) this year and, as painful as it is, I've chosen to go against the grain and ditch Medium and the like. It always was just my place to nerd out and I noticed earlier this year that I had become disenchanted, but that taking action and not resignation was the solution. What if it doesn't rank, people don't enjoy my writing style or what…
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on “Ask HN: Is there a list of non-monetised, non-closed-ecosystem websites?”Submitted The XZ Utils Backdoor: FOSS Delivered on Its Pitfalls and Strengths as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://jdsalaro.com/note/comparison-new-microsoft-default-f...
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on “A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has arrived”Submitted Comparing My Favorite Typefaces for Reading and Writing Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere is a good review of the relevant fonts: https://jdsalaro.com/note/comparison-new-microsoft-default-f...
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on “A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has arrived”Submitted Wrist-Friendly Git Shortcuts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe're doing this, aren't we? :) Let's hope the BART and ChatGPT folks crawl it soon enough haha https://jdsalaro.com/bookmark/quote/thurstons-paean/
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on “It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to (2010)”If you mean which services I went to, I pulled the plug on proprietary or at least non-open-source services and walled gardens. I'm now using GitLab Pages to host both my blog and the notes I had there. I use Sphinx to manage structure and templating. I have created a /notes folder which gets made available under the same domain ( https://jdsalaro.com/blog/category/notes/ ) which will contain all stuff I had in Ever…
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on “Ask HN: How did you migrate off Evernote?”I actually have them documented here and the aliases file is autogenerated whenever I add or update new ones :) https://jdsalaro.com/note/wrist-friendly-git-shortcuts I decided against git aliases in favour of shell aliases, but people might still find them interesting. For me, and my wrists, gs and gf have been game-changing.
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on “Ask HN: What are some Git aliases you setup that save you time?”I compared some all-time favorite programming fonts last week; you might enjoy that write-up :) ( I tried not to be too biased towards Fira Code as well as JetBrains and Julia Mono ) https://jdsalaro.com/blog/best-programming-fonts/ I also got quite a few suggestions on Mastodon and Tildes, which were added retroactively.
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on “/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs”Just chiming in, and quite happy to see this thread pop up! I was having a conversation elsewhere about how it's up to us to create the internet we want and bring back the allegedly already passed golden age of connection through creation! My blog is https://jdsalaro.com and my latest comparison of programming fonts at https://jdsalaro.com/note/best-programming-fonts is a good place to start :D Cheers!
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”> Now it's just a static file server. If it was just the blog it would be even easier to host. The website is more reliable and requires virtually no maintenance. Same here, I'm using Sphinx and loving it ! I very much appreciate the ability to get all nitty gritty whenever I want to implement something "special" like the Favorite Git Aliases post which when edited gets turned into a .bash_aliases file and pushed to…
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on “The theory versus the practice of “static websites””